Résumé
Although late-prehistoric raw-earth constructions were known and recognised for a long time in the regions in which the process of neolithisation took place very early on, they were underestimated in European archaeology up to the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 2000s up until the point at which the scientific community became fully aware of the European potential and more particularly that of a large region in Mediterranean Southern France, thanks to major discoveries made in Languedoc and Provence.Yet raw earth has become a special topic, far from regional specificities, in that it is a constituent part of funerary contexts. This topic is still poorly known and has been scarcely investigated so it was crucial to document, compare and better understand this use with regard to the latest archaeological discoveries."...https://books.openedition.org/pup/80946